Data Architect Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Data Architect
West Midlands > Shropshire

The median Data Architect daily rate in Shropshire is £469, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 23 16
Rank change year-on-year -21 -7 +71
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.98% 1.11% 1.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 1.32% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £414 - -
25th Percentile £434 £565 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.22% +5.45% -8.94%
75th Percentile £503 £595 £600
90th Percentile £523 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £588 £590 £650
% change year-on-year -0.42% -9.23% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Shropshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Shropshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Shropshire with a recognized job title 182 76 52
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.22% 84.44% 98.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 61 31
10th Percentile £325 £160 £200
25th Percentile £408 £308 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -2.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £537 £519 £531
90th Percentile £544 £567 £588
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.21 - -
Median hourly rate £18.68 £23.60 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.85% - -
75th Percentile £28.87 - -
90th Percentile £35.56 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £21.80 £22.65
% change year-on-year +15.39% -3.75% +26.79%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Data Architect job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in Shropshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in Shropshire

Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architect within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 13 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Telford -18 2 £469 -19.22% 3
Data Architect
West Midlands

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire

For the 6 months to 13 October 2025, Data Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Shropshire region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Remedy
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) PySpark
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Repository
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Design
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy